Locally, a BYB has been advertising a litter with four female GSD's - "two Black and Sable, two Standard". One of the reasons I don't always take the colors marked on a registration slip literally <G>. Janice In a message dated 11/13/2006 7:53:42 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, daryllauffer@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: I was surfing through the pet auction website that Peggy had sent us and found a GSD puppy mill breeder. They are advertising a sable puppy supposedly AKC registered. The parents of this puppy are black/tan and black/silver. According to the Willis book of genetics, in order to get a sable puppy at least one of the parents have to be sable. Is this correct? If that is correct then how can this sable puppy be from these parents -question one- and question two then would be how can they be AKC registered? AND on to question three - can't these people be reported to AKC and papers with-held from this litter? I know, they will then register with one of the "other" registeries available, but at least they wouldn't be able to advertise AKC registration. Dee Lauffer <dlauffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================